Tag: Mapping

Eight months into the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis, humanitarian actors are confronted with a new challenge. The upcoming monsoon season is likely to bring floods, landslides and cyclones to the densely populated Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, putting an estimated Read more…

Since 25 August 2017, more than half a million Rohingya have fled conflict in Myanmar across the border to Bangladesh. The majority have settled in makeshift settlements and spontaneous sites, in self-built shelters established primarily with bamboo and tarpaulin bought Read more…

In mid-August 2014, the escalation of conflict in Iraq precipitated a large influx of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). This brought about the setup of several spontaneous settlements as well as the sudden development Read more…

In late April 2015, the REACH Geographic Information System (GIS) team in Turkey launched a community-level Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) tracking map project. The aim of the project was to enhance the value of an IDP Tracking spreadsheet which was Read more…

Torrential rains, heavy snow, high winds and hail have swept across the Middle East, exacerbating the already precarious living conditions of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, many in camps and informal settlements. Storm Huda has caused significant damage to shelters Read more…